LaToya drove straight to the police station with the recording of Patty Donaldson confessing she saw Earl committing incest with his mother in the backseat of a car a decade ago. They needed to interview Patty soon themselves, so they wouldn't dismiss this as some insane plot lifted from erotica.
She went in and walked to the front desk. "I need to talk to the detective in charge of the Earl Riley case. I have to tell him about some nasty shit. Now."
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Patty Donaldson sat conversing in the kitchen with a person that knocked on her door after LaToya left. "You are so much easier to talk with than that La La or whatever her name was. She had no interest in talking about Y&R or looking at pictures of my grandson. And you have a simple name. No ghetto nonsense. That girl's mother really dropped the ball with that. Would you like some sponge cake?" The person nodded. "Coming right up! You can take your gloves off, it is hot outside!"
As Patty cut a piece of cake and hummed a Elvis song, she didn't notice the person coming up behind her with a syringe and plunged it into Patty's neck. Patty swung around and stared at the killer in horror. "Hey! What in tarnation! I'm not into that druggie stuff! I didn't take you for the kind either!"
"I'm sorry, but you can't tell that story to the police. If it makes you feel any better, your sponge cake looks lovely," the killer said politely.
Patty dropped to the floor and started convulsing. Within minutes, she was dead. The killer packed up the sponge cake to take away in tupperware. Then the killer took the knife Patty was using to cut the cake and stabbed Patty's ass. The killer noticed a laptop with Spotify open in the living room. The killer couldn't resist putting "Patricia" by Florence + The Machine on a loop.
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Henry got off the phone with Dillon and knocked on the guest bedroom door. He felt a little awkward after that long arousing hug where he poked her with his boner and she liked it. Nor was he going to linger on jerking off to an Asian man titty fucking a black woman right afterwards. Nope. No correlation there.
Nia opened the door in just his Harvard shirt. The yesterday's clothes were on a pile on the bed. "What? I felt gross, so it was better to just Winnie the Pooh it around here for today at least."
Henry lingered on the way her tits looked in his shirt and her smooth legs. He shook it off. He had to deliver important news. "Stacy was found dead by a hiker. It was an arrow to the ass and then stabbed. I'm sorry."
"Jesus. She was my friend. Sure, she was a bit flakey and I did most of the emotional labor of the friendship, but I didn't want her to die. Not even after what she did with Earl. Which didn't really make sense in the first place. Stacy looked tall guys. Earl was too short for her," Nia mused.
"Tell me about it. That sounds a bit like what happened with me and Lila. I heard from another friend that she was cheating, so I hired your sister to find out. She got pics of them banging in the gym locker room. I'm in good shape, but this guy was like action hero ripped. She cried and said he came onto her and she couldn't resist. Like that is an excuse for cheating. It isn't like I didn't get hit on, but I always firmly declined," Henry seethed.
"How long ago was the divorce?" Nia asked sympathetically.
"It has been five months. The marriage only lasted a year. I've been dating, but I'm a relationship guy, so I don't enjoy it that much," Henry confessed.
Nia made a "Pffft" sound. "I saw your hair when you came into the interrogation room. You looked like you just came from plowing someone into the mattress, got the call from my sister and left in a hurry."
Henry looked sheepish. "Date. She was boring, but attractive and I was horny. It was only heavy petting."
"I'm not judging you. I'm the girl who hit on her boss after ditching her wedding," Nia pointed out. "And my life is a mess. No job, no man, not even a dog and I'm suspected of murder. I practically begged you to rub your boner on me." Nia looked mortified at that.
"And I loved every second of it. You don't have nothing. You have friends and family that adore you. You have your health. You have a great personality. You're a writer," Henry looking at her lips. "And you're stunning."
"You forgot my great rack," Nia joked. "And I'm not a writer. I haven't written anything yet!"
"I think the first step to being a writer is deciding you are a writer. Hold on a second." Henry walked off back to his bedroom and came back and handed her Stephen King's On Writing. "I got this as a gift a few years back. I think it was a regift. My writing involves a lot of legal jargon, so I don't really have any use for it. You can have it. Even if you never make any money from it, Nia, I believe you are a writer."
That was it. Nia wanted to suck his dick, eat his ass and have his babies right there and then. Unfortunately for Nia, the doorbell rang. Henry went downstairs to answer it and Nia stood there and mentally cursed out the cockblocking bitch on the other side of that door.
Henry opened the door and it was Matt, in his casual dress of a plaid shirt and jeans. "Hey, Henry. Can I speak to Nia? Dillon told me she was here."
"He told you? He wasn't supposed to be giving that information out! Nia, Matt is here," Henry yelled up. "You can come down or I can slam the door in his face."
Nia came down the stairs nervously. "Hey, Matt. What do you want?" She self-consciously pulled the shirt she was wearing down more.
"I came to apologize for my behavior at Deflated Balls. I shouldn't have been so dismissive of you and I should have taken you up on your offer. I'm sorry." Matt revealed he was holding roses behind his back and handed them to her.
Nia hated getting flowers. It was a pain getting a vase of water and they died, so as a token of affection they were pretty shitty. She couldn't say all that without sounding like a giant bitch, so she just thanked him.
"Wil you have dinner with me?" Matt asked. "I know you can't leave here, so I'll get takeout and bring it here."
Nia hesitated. Matt was hot and nice, but he was boring. She imagined the dinner in her head and it was snooze worthy. Matt would talk about divorce statistics and how good the practice was doing and the latest thing he bought that was expensive. Yesterday's sudden impulse to have sex with him was probably brought on by the stress of that day and needing a release. She wasn't really into him in that way. Five minutes of the boner poking hug with Henry sounded more exciting than an evening with Matt. She had to politely decline.
Henry mistook her hesitation for trying to not hurt his feelings and jumped in. "She'd love to have dinner with you. She just didn't want me to feel left out, but I'm going out tonight, so no need to worry about me." With that, Henry went back upstairs.
"Great! See you at 7, Nia!" And the doofus left, closing the door without verbally confirming with her.
Nia was pissed. She tossed the roses on the couch. If Henry thinks he can pawn her off on Matt, he had another thing coming. She took off his Harvard shirt and flung at the couch. She then stepped out of her panties and they joined the shirt and roses. Then she marched up the stairs on a mission.
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"What do you mean Patty is dead?" LaToya asked looking at Detective Andy Palmer like he was insane. The man was portly and bald and you could see bread crumbs in his mustache.
"It means that she was found dead by her husband thirty minutes ago and you were the last person to see her alive," Andy stated smugly. "Why did you kill the lady? Drugs? Gang thing? She sleep with your baby daddy? Steal your weave?"
LaToya took a deep breath and reminded herself she couldn't punch this casually racist old man in a interrogation room or at all. "I was the one who came here to give you guys the recording of Patty's recounting of seeing Earl banging his mother in the backseat of a car that resulted in his sister being in a wheelchair. I needed Patty alive to tell that story. It makes no sense for me to kill her."
Andy made a "blah blah blah" talking hand gesture. "You could have coerced Patty to make that recording to clear your sister, then offed her to make sure she didn't get rattled at trial and tell the truth. I don't believe this incest nonsense. Who would bang in a backseat with your husband and daughter in the front? Wouldn't they smell the pussy and jizz? Hear the banging? It makes no sense."
"It is crazy, but it is the story Patty told and apparently someone wanted to silence her. And if I coerced that recording, why I include a five minute tangent about missing the old Billy on The Young and the Restless. You think I wanted to hear that?" Andy just snorted. She really wanted to rip his mustache off his face and shove it down his throat. "Okay, I want a lawyer. I'm done talking to you."
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"I don't know why that LaToya would say my Mom banged my brother. She's sick in the head. Earl didn't even like white women. He wanted that Nubian goddess pussy! Sure, he let that redhead have lick or ten at his shitter, but boys will be boys," Edwina said with tears in her eyes for this Daytime Emmy worthy performance. "Taking advantage of my tragedy is low. Dark skinned girls resent us light skinned girls. It isn't my fault I'm light. They see Hollywood casting another light skinned Storm and it just drives them insane, so all light skinned girls must pay. You believe me, don't you, Andy?"
Andy had tears in his eyes and was eating this shit up. "I do. She's just jealous of you and being a hater. You've suffered so much. Being in that chair and having to deal with discrimination just because you aren't as black as darkness. It isn't fair!"
Edwina rolled out of the room a few minutes later and joined her mother. "You owe me a PS4, a few games and some edibles."